Workers' Compensation News

Florida's Office of Judges of Compensation Claims (OJCC) saw a 680% increase in the electronic filing of documents during fiscal 2007-2008. The unprecedented growth caused the number of "e-filings" last month to close in on the total for the entire previous year, Deputy Chief Judge David Langham...Read More

A Florida judge of compensation claims erred by allowing discovery of a claimant's financial information without first convening an evidentiary hearing to determine the importance of the information, the 1st District Court of Appeal ruled in a published decision.After reviewing case ...Read More

Three people involved with a Miami-based medical billing company have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to commit health care fraud in connection with nearly $420 million in phony billings to Medicare for durable medical equipment, officials said last week.U.S. Attorney Alexander A...Read More

Frasco Inc. announced Wednesday that it has hired Sam King to head its Special Investigations Unit and Program Management business units.King comes to Frasco from MJM Investigations, where he served as the senior vice president of MJM’s Western Region, responsible for 13 Western st...Read More

After a seven-year search, the Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims is finally moving its Miami district office to larger quarters.OJCC Chief Deputy Judge David Langham said the five judges in Miami and their support staff will move from one tower of the state Rohde Building t...Read More

The Tenaska Ferndale Cogeneration Station is receiving a workplace safety award from the Washington State Department of Labor & Industry.The Ferndale plant is designated a Star site by the Department of Labor & Industries’ Voluntary Protection Program. This means it has ach...Read More

A regional competition in Spokane July 12 will determine who will compete in the Forklift Rodeo finals in September.The Washington Department of Labor and Industries is sponsoring a Forklift Rodeo regional competition at Spokane Community College. The competition is open to professional ...Read More

A bankrupt staffing firm that sold a "tribal" workers' compensation coverage plan to dozens of California employers left behind more than 200 permanent disability claims with an estimated $5 million in liabilities, the former underwriter and claims manager for the company told WorkCompCentral....Read More

A federal judge presiding in the fight between the National Rifle Association (NRA) and two major Florida business groups over a new "parking-lot" gun law that has gained the national spotlight said he won't rule on a request for a temporary injunction until after the law takes effect....Read More

The First District Court of Appeals Thursday agreed to review a Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision that reinterpreted apportionment in cases where there are multiple injuries that become permanent and stationary simultaneously.The First District court order agrees to revi...Read More

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Charlotte workers’ compensation defense attorney Amanda Witzke has been appointed to serve as a deputy commissioner for the North Carolina Industrial Commission.
Amanda Witzke
Industrial Commission Chairman Charlton Allen announced Witzke’s appointment last week.
Witzke joins the Industrial Commission from the law firm of Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, which represents employers and carriers in workers’ compensation and liability matters in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
She holds a bachelor’s and law degree from the University of North Carolina a...
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A long-gestating proposal to create an intermediate court of appeals in West Virginia has gained approval in the West Virginia Senate.
Sen. Patricia Rucker
The chamber passed Senate Bill 341 along party lines on Thursday, with all but one Democrat voting against it, The Register-Herald newspaper of Beckley, West Virginia, reported.
Business and insurance interests back SB 341, saying an intermediate appellate court system would create “some predictability and better case law,” as West Virginia Insurance Federation president Jill Rice put it.
The West Virginia Association...
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California workers’ compensation carrier Zenith Insurance Co. has sued the Texas Institute for Surgery over more than $1 million in medical bills associated with a brain injury sustained by an injured worker while she emerged from anesthesia after ankle surgery.
Zenith writes that 38-year-old Tyra Price’s brain injury “would not have occurred but for the negligent, careless and/or reckless conduct” of Texas Institute for Surgery, whose staff allegedly failed to keep Price’s airways clean, resulting in cardiac arrest.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in the ...
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